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Long‐Term Survival After Choriocarcinoma Transmitted by Liver Graft: A Successf...

Background: LT is the standard of care for many pediatric liver disorders. Although long-term outcomes have improved, some rare complications such as transmission of occult donor tumors have been reported. Case report: An adolescent diagnosed with tyrosinemia was submitted to LT from a previous healthy donor due to HCC. Almost 8 months after LT, the patient presented a nodular hepatic lesion. Clinically, he had...

Liver transplantation for colorectal liver metastasis: Survival without recurre...

Diastolic Dysfunction in Liver Cirrhosis: Prognostic Predictor in Liver Transpl...

BACKGROUND: Patients with liver cirrhosis may develop cirrhotic cardiomyopathy (CC), characterized by blunted contractile responsiveness to stress, diastolic dysfunction (DD), and electrophysiological abnormalities. It may adversely affect the long-term prognosis of these patients. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients undergoing liver transplantation (LT) for cirrhosis from January 2012 to...

[The Importance of Early Referral in Pediatric Acute Liver Failure]

INTRODUCTION: Acute liver failure is a rare disorder associated to high morbidity and mortality despite survival improvement through liver transplantation. The importance of a multidisciplinary approach and early referral to a pediatric liver transplantation center were important conclusions of a national meeting in 2008, from which resulted an actuation consensus. OBJECTIVES: To characterize acute liver failur...

Endovascular recanalization of a hepatic vein in Budd-Chiari syndrome: a collat...

A Importância da Referenciação Precoce na Falência Hepática Aguda Pediátrica

INTRODUCTION: Acute liver failure is a rare disorder associated to high morbidity and mortality despite survival improvement through liver transplantation. The importance of a multidisciplinary approach and early referral to a pediatric liver transplantation center were important conclusions of a national meeting in 2008, from which resulted an actuation consensus. OBJECTIVES: To characterize acute liver failur...

Peritoneal and hepatic hydatid disease causing major bile duct destruction

Echinococcosis is endemic in Mediterranean regions and is found primarily in the liver. Biliary fistula is a common complication, but major biliary duct involvement is very rare, and occurs in 0.47% of patients with hepatic hydatid disease. Cyst rupture causing secondary peritoneal hydatidosis is a rare but serious complication. We report the case of a 27-year-old man with multiple peritoneal and hepatic hydati...

Uma causa rara de hipertensão portal: Caso clínico

Apresenta-se caso clínico de doente com quadro de hipertensão portal pela presença de fístula artério-venosa entre a artéria gastroduodenal e a veia porta. Indivíduo do sexo masculino, de 77 anos, previamente saudável, com ascite volumosa de instalação recente. Hemorragia digestiva alta por rotura de varizes esofágicas. TAC abdominal revelando acentuada dilatação da veia porta (30 mm), envolvida em fístula arté...

Metastases supraclaviculares de adenocarcinoma do cólon

The most common histologic variant of colon cancer is adenocarcinoma and liver is the most frequent metastatic site. Supraclavicular lymph node metastases are rare. A few case reports describe supraclavicular lymph node metastases as the first clinical manifestation of colon cancer. The authors present the case report of a 41-year-old female patient with a conglomerate of lymph nodes in the left supraclavicular...

Primary leiomyoma of the liver: accurate preoperative diagnosis on liver biopsy